Openbsd

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The OpenBSD project released 7.7 of their OS on today, 28 Apr 2025, as their 58th release 💫

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The OpenBSD project released 7.6 of their OS on 8 Oct 2024 as their 57th release 💫

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The OpenBSD project released 7.5 of their OS on 5 Apr 2024 as their 56th release 💫

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The OpenBSD project released 7.4 of their OS on 16 Oct 2023 as their 55th release 💫

Problem

With VirtualBox 7.0, installing OpenBSD 🐡 7.3 as guest on Artix Linux 🐧 as host failed.

It was because of vbox Settings, in which checked (by default) was System - Motherboard - “Enable I/O APIC”…🤕

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OpenBSD develops and maintains their own web server called “httpd” under ISC license. It is installed by default in OS installation.

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The OpenBSD project released 7.3 of their OS on 10 Apr 2023🌷 It is their 54th release.

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The OpenBSD official documentation says:

If you have a running OpenBSD system, bsd.rd is all you need to reinstall or upgrade to a newer version.

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Is it possible to change the passphrase after applying Full Disk Encryption by it to your OpenBSD server ?

Yes !! This post shows how. It’s a really simple way with bioctl.

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OpenBSD supports full disk encryption (FDE) with softraid and bioctl. The tutorial for it is officially provided. With FDE, even if you lose your computer, your data is strongly protected (as long as the key is in safety).

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The OpenBSD project released 7.2 of their OS on 20 Oct 2022✨ It was their 53rd release.

When you try to change user password on OpenBSD and it is not strong enough, you will see the error:

$ passwd
Changing password for <youruser>.
Old password:
New password:
Please use a more complicated password.
Please use a different password. Unusual capitalization,
control characters, or digits are suggested.
New password:

You had better follow the messages.

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The OpenBSD project released 7.1 of their OS on 21 Apr 2022✨ It was their 52nd release.

Yay, our website, obsd.solutions, on OpenBSD server got full marks on Lighthouse !!!

It is hosted on our OpenBSD server with httpd, their default web server. We deeply appreciate them for their solid OS, and also Cloudflare for their fast and flexible network. Also, their great mind on security.

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OpenBSD has its own FTP server called ftpd.

ftpd, the FTP daemon, is installed and disabled by default. All what to do in order to use it is just run rcctl enable and rcctl start.

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The post is about how to create a OpenBSD vm with Oracle VM VirtualBox briefly with some screenshots.

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OpenBSD httpd

OpenBSD has its own web server called “httpd”.

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I met errors on pkg_add and syspatch just after installing OpenBSD on VirtualBox the other day. They were printed as TLS handshake failure and I solved by modifying /etc/installurl. However, I didn’t know what actually it happened and why.

What happened

Just after installing OpenBSD onto VirtualBox, I couldn’t use syspatch and pkg_add due to the error:

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OpenBSD 51st release on 14 Oct 2021 has arrived at 7.0✨

This post shows how to upgrade OpenBSD 6.9 to 7.0.

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Next OpenBSD release, 6.9, has been published on 1 May 2021✨

The 6.9 Song is “Vetera Novis”, which means “old new” in Latin.

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The latest OpenBSD OS is now 6.8 ✨ which was released on 18 Oct 2020.

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Happy news, again. OpenBSD project has released 6.7 😊

Cute artwork ✨

This post is about how to make maling lists in OpenBSD (whose current version is 6.5.)

With OpenSMTPD (and Dovecot, optionally), this method is perhaps the simplest.

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This post is about how to check and configure the timezone in OpenBSD.

Environment

• OS: OpenBSD 6.4 amd64

Tutorial

Step 1: Check the timezone

Let’s check the current timezone with date command:

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This post is about a single option around OpenBSD’s rcctl, utility to “configure and control daemons and services”.

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OpenBSD has its own FTP server called ftpd. It’s sufficient to transfer files among hosts in a simple and secure way.

Intro

OpenBSD has its own web server called “httpd”.

Backgrounds

It’s possible on OpenBSD to install Nginx and Apache (called “apache-httpd”).